Graphic Novel and Manga Fans--New at Southside

Posted on 4/30/2013
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Southside Library

Check the library catalog! If it's not there yet, it soon will be. A recent gift to the Southside Branch has allowed us to improve and update our collection of graphic novels and manga! Several new manga series are already on our shelves, including:

Ayuko’s The Earl and the Fairy

Azuma’s Yotsuba&!

Kamachi’s A Certain Scientific Railgun

Konami’s Chi’s Sweet Home

Mori’s A Bride’s Story

Mochizuki’s Pandora Hearts

Ohba’s Death Note

Tanagawa’s The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan

Ikeda’s Rosario +Vampire

and Okhuba’s Soul Eater.

You’ll also find these must-read classics. Miyasaki’s Nausicaa Valley of the Wind and the acclaimed Hagio Moto’s Heart of Thomas and A Drunken Dream and Other Stories. The ground-breaking Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo. We also have the complete series of six volumes of Osama Tesuka’s Buddha.

Coming this summer? Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori, Kazue Kato’s Blue Exorcist, and Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail. We’re also expecting Nimue Brown’s Hopeless, Maine, Mike Carey’s Sigil: Out of Time, Mike Costa’s Smoke and Mirrors, and Tom Gauld’s Goliath. You’ll be able to read Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth, Roger Langridge’s Thor: The Might Avenger, Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters Per Second and Barry Lyga’s Mangaman. We already have volumes 1-3 of Shimura Takako’s Wandering Son, and volumes 4 and 5 will be on our shelves this summer.

And there’s more, including many stand alone new graphic novels. We’ve also been able to add titles by some of the most popular young adult fiction writers, L.J. Smith, Thomas Sniegoski, Kiera Cass, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Ni-Ni Simone, Maggie Stiefvater, and Joanna Philbin. Visit us and see what’s new on our shelves, and come back again in the summer to see what we add.

Any questions? Call us at 336-703-2985. And if you have suggestions of great manga or graphic novels you'd like to see added to Southside's collection, please call us about that as well. We always appreciate customer suggestions.